[FusionWeb] [Web] Theme proposal/idea/mockup

[Will Farrington]

Alright - good to hear! Can't wait to see your revised mock-up. =)

On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 17:27 +0200, RYX wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 24.06.2007, 10:38 -0400 schrieb Will Farrington:
> > Only a few concerns at the moment:
> > 
> > HEADER AREA + NAVBAR:
> > 
> > The bar with the "Forum" etc links will be readily doable in vB. We'd
> > probably want to have them evenly spaced out for ease-of-use though
> > (which can be done via simple CSS).
> Good to hear (and yes, we can do that). I haven't done a hover/active
> effect yet, I guess it would be best to use some rounded rect with the
> "area-color" or some shades of gray.
> 
> > The bar with Control Panel etc. will probably need to be slightly
> > reworked to better work with vBulletin (for purposes of usability), but,
> > for the most part, will be readily doable as well.
> Cool. I can change things as needed. I had a quick look at the
> template-system and it looked very nice and flexible so I am sure we can
> make it fit. I already have a general idea of how the divs/blocks can be
> structured.
> 
> > Also, I think the tabs might look better if, when focused, they still
> > appear to come from the header image area. Right now it looks like the
> > focused tab is coming out of the top of the window itself, which looks
> > odd in comparison to all the other tabs coming from the header image.
> Yes, Guillaume said the same. I thought it's just uncommon (maybe a bit
> unique). But I'll make another version with the tab coming out of the
> header to see what looks better.
> 
> > GENERAL LAYOUT:
> > 
> > I think the forum layout area could offer a bit more separation between
> > the forums. Naturally, vB also tends to show information to the right
> > (such as last post, number of posts, number of threads, moderators),
> > most of which is optional. Still, I feel that at the very least, a
> > couple of those statistics would be well-served by being in the
> > forumhome/forumdisplay templates.
> Definetly. I only scratched the surface of the central area, it wasn't
> really meant as a serious proposal (but it looked too empty without it).
> 
> > COLORS:
> > 
> > While I normally absolutely hate dark themes, I don't know if it's the
> > magic of Rico doing his work, or the Tango color palette, but I really,
> > really like this theme, in spite of my usual preferences.
> Thanks :D ... I see it exactly as you (maybe that's the reason?).
> 
> > I do, however, think some people even more zealous about their colors
> > than I might also like a light theme to go along with the current one
> > (vBulletin offers a simple dropdown at the bottom left of all pages for
> > such in instance that allows users to change themes on the fly (it's
> > still possible via the Options though) using browser cookies).
> I also planned to make a light-version of the theme. It should be enough
> to simply change the inner area and the outer background (the very dark
> gray) to a silver/aluminium tone. Then we can change the CSS to dark
> text and everyone can use the style he/she prefers.
> 
> 
> Thanks for your suggestions :)